cwirth

thanks very much. you are so kind to have been so patient until i understand.

Gosh, i hate being a pest, but the body is still not transparent.

here is the custom CSS. did i misunderstand?

.site-content {
background-color: transparent;
background: rgba(0,255,255,0.5);
}

body {
background-color: transparent;
}

I added the image using the Customizer:
Background Repeat=Tile Horizontally (just to make sure it was going all the way across)
Background Position=Left
Background Attachment=Fixed
Background Size=Contain
Background Overlay Opacity slider 1/3 from the left
and Sidebar Background Colour is the Default #FFFFFF

Have i added it in the wrong place? Here it is from View Page Source

<style type=’text/css’>img#wpstats{display:none}</style><style type=”text/css” id=”custom-background-css”>
.sidebar { background-color: #ffffff; background-image: url(‘https://fc8.c7e.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/rocksGray.jpg&#8217;); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: top left; background-attachment: fixed; background-size: contain; }
.sidebar:before {opacity: 0.3;}
</style>

Hmmm, now that i am re-reading what you said, do you mean the image is custom css in the body layer, rather than using the customizer and adding it to the background?

sorry to be dense about this. thanks for your patience.

thanks loads for making the time to answer at your last minute of the day.

in customize i reset all my color changes back to default and added your code to the jetpack edit css. nothing seemed to change.

i went to the editor and noted that the css says .site-content {background-color instead of just background, so i changed that and nothing seemed to change.

i changed the rgba from (255,255,255,0.5) to (0,255,255,0.1) to make some contrast and now i see that there seems to be a white layer between the content background and the full background.

when i changed the body {background-color to (0,255,255,0.1), it changed that white layer’s color but does not get transparent.

the upshot is i seem to be able to change the two layers of color, but I still cannot see the background image.

i would love to share the url with you, but the client is not interested in sharing yet in a relatively public forum. if you want to see it, is there a private way to share?

thanks loads.

Sorry about that. re-posted. Thanks in advance for the attention.

is it possible to make the entire width of the site transparent, both sidebar and content area? I want one image behind the sidebar and also behind the content area.

my image spreads across the site. i can see the left side behind the sidebar, but i cannot figure out where to turn off the content background color, or change the content background color to transparent.